Men's Lacrosse To Host Vermont in Crucial America East Contest on Saturday Afternoon

A pair of America East lacrosse
squads hungry for a victory face off at UMBC Stadium on Saturday,
April 6, when the UMBC Retrievers (3-6, 0-1) host the Vermont
Catamounts (3-7, 1-0) in league play. Both teams dropped their
league openers, as UMBC lost a heartbreaking 15-14 overtime
decision at Hartford, while Stony Brook won, 19-10, in Burlington.
The game will be broadcast on Q1370, with Gary Stein calling the
action, beginning with the pregame show at 12:55 p.m. All UMBC home
games are streamed in high definition on
www.umbcretrievers.tv.

UMBC battled back from a deficit
for most of the afternoon and led Hartford, 14-11 with less than
six minutes remaining, but the Hawks tied the game with 11 seconds
left and won less than a minute into overtime. Freshman
midfielder Pat Young led
the visitors with a season-best four goals and five points. Senior
attackmen Scott
Jones and Matt
Gregoire added three goals apiece.

A LOOK AT THE OPPONENT. Stony Brook
defeated Vermont, 19-10, in the America East men's lacrosse opener
for both teams on March 30 at Virtue
Field.The Catamounts were led by senior
attackman Drew Philie and junior linemate Graham Horvath, who
collected three goals apiece. Freshman netminder Justin Rosenberg
took the loss for Vermont despite making 12 saves on the day.
Philie continues to climb up the ranks in several categories of the
Vermont men's lacrosse all-time records. He now ranks fifth in
all-time goals (112) at Vermont, seventh in points (160), and 10th
in assists (48). The captain needs just two goals to move up to
fourth place on the all-time goals list.

ALL-TIME SERIES: UMBC has won all
nine previous meetings with Vermont, but the last three meetings
have been decided by a total of five goals.

THE LAST TIME WE MET: Scott
Hopmann led visiting UMBC with three goals and eight other
Retrievers hit the nets as UMBC never trailed in an 11-8 America
East Conference victory at Vermont in 2012.

UP NEXT: UMBC will play its second
of three America East road contests when the Retrievers travel to
Stony Brook for a Saturday, April 13 contest.